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The timeline below shows where the symbol London appears in The Secret Agent. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
- Spooks, BBC One/BBC Three
- London Spy, BBC Two
- Killing Eve, BBC America
- Deep State, Fox
- Danger Man, ITV
- Spies of Warsaw, BBC Four
- Spy, Sky 1
- The Game, BBC Two/Bbc America
- Alex Rider, Freevee/Prime Video
- M.I. High, CBBC
The BBC One spy drama series Spooksaired over 10 seasons, clocking in almost 90 episodes in total! It takes its title from a common slang term used to refer to spies, but internationally it was aired in some regions as simply MI-5. Spooksfollows a team of secret agents working in the MI-5’s counter-terrorism unit that protects the country from inte...
Tom Rob Smith, who wrote the movie Child 44 and also wrote for The Assassination of Gianni Versace, is behind BBC’s London Spy, a five-part drama series that aired in 2015. We first meet Danny Holt, a young and “hedonistic” man who spent his youth deep in the recesses of every nightclub in London. He meets Alex Turner, a smart young man he finds is...
Killing Eveis a look into a fascinating relationship that forms between an intelligence officer and an elusive assassin that she’s assigned to look into. The series bagged several awards during its run, particularly for the performances of Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer in the lead roles. Oh plays the titular Eve Polastri, who begins the series at a des...
Fox’s drama thriller Deep Stateaired for two seasons, with each season covering two separate events that transpire over the timeline of their respective seasons. The first season of Deep Statefollows Max Easton, a former MI6 field agent who is pulled out of his retirement in order to return to the force for one last job, only to discover that this ...
Danger Man was the British title, but this ITV action series also went by Secret Agent, Destination Danger, and John Drakein other international broadcasts. The four-season TV show operated on the premise that while every government in the world has their own equivalent of the secret service, even NATO had its own. More messy and dangerous jobs wer...
Spies of Warsawis a four-part historical fiction miniseries that aired in 2013. Despite being a British production, it is primarily set (and filmed) in, as the title suggests, Warsaw and other cities of Poland. Over the four episodes, the series follows Jean-François Mercier, a French intelligence agent who works for France’s then-version of the CI...
As a breath of fresh air from the previous shows that are all on the serious drama side, Sky 1’s Spyis a two-season sitcom that ended its run with a Christmas special episode. The series follows Tim Elliot, a divorced single father hated by both his son and his ex-wife, who one day decides to quit his job as a sales assistant. He applies for what h...
British espionage thriller The Game aired over just one season, but its six episodes were definitely packed with drama and intrigue taking place in London during the early 1970s. Agents within the MI5 have been made aware of Operation Glass, a plan by the Soviets to take down Britain, by a former KGB officer who wants to defect. In order to prevent...
Alex Rideris based on Anthony Horowitz’ series of novels of the same name, and was adapted into Amazon’s action spy thriller series. It differs quite a bit from other espionage narratives as the eponymous protagonist is but a teenager, albeit a highly talented one. Alex Rider is recruited by MI6’s Department of Special Operations to infiltrate a su...
Like the previous show, M.I. Highfeatures someone much younger than you’d expect as the show’s protagonist and in this case, it’s more than just one person! As a matter of fact, viewers will meet four teenage students at Saint Heart’s secondary school who are also undercover spies working for the show’s fictional version of the Secret Intelligence ...
Not so much with The Secret Agent (Sunday, 9pm, BBC1). The year is 1886, and things are looking a bit peak for the bourgeoisie of London. The year is 1886, and things are looking a bit peak for ...
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This extended metaphor, using London as a centre of darkness much like Kurtz's headquarters in Heart of Darkness, presents "a dark vision of moral and spiritual inertia" and a condemnation of those who, like Mrs Verloc, think it a mistake to think too deeply.
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What kinds of things do you expect from a book called The Secret Agent? Maybe dark, foggy London streets? Mysterious bombings, perhaps? A few anarchists hanging out in porn stores? Some suicide leaps off of ferry boats? Crooked cops? Well, Joseph Conrad's novel ticks all of these bleak and eerie boxes… and then some.
Oct 21, 2016 · Device 6. If you’ve ever watched the cult British TV show The Prisoner, the central plot of Device 6 should be familiar to you. Waking up alone on a mysterious island with little to no ...
